what can you tell us? >> reporter: that's right, in ohio this morning, this is in the cleveland area and if you go back to 2008, on the final weekend the president had a rally in cleveland that had 80,000 people back when he was the new senator and had a lot of energy and enthusiasm behind him. we are in a gymnasium here, a lot less than people than 80,000. last time it was outside of cleveland browns game. what the campaign is saying, this weekend and other events will bring out a lot of celebrities and believe they will have really big crowds. they are he going to be katy perry, dave mathews, stevie wonder, bruce springsteen and jay-z on pit bull. performers throughout the country and events at battle ground states trying to boost the crowds. in 2008 the president did an event in the final weekend, in a state he was not winning, but he was trying to expand the map and trying to win republicans over to his column and this side, more on defense, states he won last time that he wants to keep in his column,